Physics News

Apr 17, 2015, 1:32 PM
Mobile Sites & Apps: Experimental & Innovation
Apr 16, 2015, 1:22 PM
Physics is Fun! April 18, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. Roessler Hall 168 A room filled with demos showing cool physics and some applications to modern technology. Informal and staffed by volunteers.
Mar 25, 2015, 1:27 PM
February was Student Engagement and Philanthropy Month and We Are Aggie Pride planned activities throughout the month to help students in need.
Mar 13, 2015, 1:36 PM
Sequestration of Vacuum Energy and the End of the Universe Nemanja Kaloper and Antonio Padilla Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 101302 – Published 10 March 2015
Mar 2, 2015, 11:00 AM
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have for the first time spotted four images of the same distant exploding star, arranged in an “Einstein’s Cross,” a cross-shape pattern created…
Feb 26, 2015, 11:32 AM
Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi has heartily endorsed the nominations of 22 staff members as UC Davis stars in the second annual campuswide STAR Award Program. The Chancellor’s STAR Awards — STAR…
Feb 25, 2015, 1:32 PM
Recipient, Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, Alfred H. and Marie E. Gibeling Fellowship, Dissertation Year Fellowship, and the Graduate Research Mentorship
Feb 25, 2015, 1:32 PM
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the…
Feb 25, 2015, 1:31 PM
The Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program sends approximately 800 American scholars and professionals per year to approximately 130 countries, where they lecture and/or conduct research in a wide…
Feb 20, 2015, 2:23 PM
The Core Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program sends approximately 800 American scholars and professionals per year to approximately 130 countries, where they lecture and/or conduct research in a wide…
Jan 28, 2015, 1:33 PM
UC Davis has announced its 15th class of Chancellor’s Fellows — 10 faculty members at the associate professor level who have caught the attention of their colleagues, department chairs and deans,…
Nov 26, 2014, 1:34 PM
Six UC Davis faculty members have been elected in the 2014 class of fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Nov 8, 2014, 2:45 PM
Physics faculty are participating in the sixth annual Running of the Turkeys — a Thanksgiving Day benefit — and inviting other people in the campus community to join in.
Nov 7, 2014, 3:04 PM
Professor Emerita of Physics Ling-Lie Chau (喬玲麗) was 10 years old in 1949 when the Chinese Communist Party took over much of China and her family fled from Shanghai to Taiwan.
Oct 15, 2014, 3:27 PM
he International Year of Crystallography has understandably been a celebration of order. From Rene-Just Haüy's prescient drawings of stacked cubes to the convolutions of membrane proteins, Nature…
Oct 10, 2014, 3:48 PM
Every second, the Earth is being struck by cosmic rays, high energy particles that slam into the atmosphere. Understanding where they come from and how they're generated could provide information…
May 30, 2014, 3:52 PM
During The Campaign for UC Davis, which celebrated a successful closure in May 2014, Ling-Lie Chau (喬玲麗), professor emerita of physics, has made a planned giving bequest agreement with UC Davis,…